In 2002, Afeni Shakur shocked friends and family members by returning to her native turf of Lumberton, where she had a large ...

Assata Shakur, the godmother of the late rapper Tupac Shakur and a convicted cop killer on the FBI’s most wanted list, has died in Cuba, where she was granted asylum. She was 78. A member of the Black ...

Assata Shakur, a Black revolutionary, died in Havana, Cuba, on Thursday, September 25. She was widely known for becoming the first woman to be named in the FBI’s list of most wanted terrorists, as per ...

(CNN) — Shortly after arriving to Cuba, Assata Shakur was stopped by a policeman, not because she was a wanted fugitive and convicted cop killer in the United States but because she was Black. It was ...

Havana (CNN) — Assata Shakur, the Black Liberation Army member and fugitive with a $2 million FBI reward on her head, died in Havana where she had received political asylum from Fidel Castro, the ...